When a child goes through a traumatic event, neglect, or abuse, it can impact them for the rest of their lives. Local non-profit, Child Watch, seeks to help prevent these events from happening- and steps in to help when they do. 

Court records show the woman pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse. She agreed to serve at least 28 years in prison.

PENNSYLVANIA (WTAE) — An investigation is underway in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, after first responders had to give naloxone to a baby Sunday night.

"I am deeply sorry," Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members gathered at a former residential school south of Edmonton, Alberta. He called the school policy a "disastrous error" that was incompatible with the Gospel and said further investigation and healing is needed.

Gov. Andy Beshear is in Louisville Wednesday to ceremonially sign two bills aimed at helping children who've been abused or neglected. 

The department released on Wednesday a long-awaited review of past efforts by the federal government to assimilate Native American children into White American society by separating them from their families and stripping them of their languages and cultures.

In a document filed in Boone County Circuit Court on March 31, Sheena Greitens says allegations of her ex-husband's abuse were reported to "multiple lawyers, therapists, and our mediator, in 2018 and afterward."

Former US women's soccer goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested in North Carolina on Friday on charges of misdemeanor child abuse, resisting arrest and impaired driving, police said.

Judge Amy Clark Meachum wrote in an order that the family named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit "will suffer irreparable injury" unless the defendants — Abbott and DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters — are restrained from investigating families of transgender children.

Sen. Ralph Alvarado says it's probably the most important bill lawmakers will take up this year. He's a co-sponsor of the bill.